Rasa: Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics

By Marc Benamou

The complex notion of rasa, as understood by Javanese musicians, refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste, feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing intuitively, and deep understanding. This leaves us with a number of questions: how is rasa expressed musically? Who or what has rasa, and what sorts of musical, psychological, perceptual, and sociological distinctions enter into this determination? How is the vocabulary of rasa structured, and what does this tell us about traditional Javanese music and aesthetics?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190628456
• ISBN13: 9780190628451
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"